Time magazine names Greta Thunberg ‘person of the year’

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named the youngest ever person of the year by Time magazine.

The 16-year old is the global face of the youth climate movement who has travelled to conferences and protest across the world.Thunberg has given speeches to world leaders urging them to do more to prevent global warming.

Time said, “For sounding the alarm about humanity’s predatory relationship with the only home we have, for bringing to a fragmented world a voice that transcends backgrounds and borders, for showing us all what it might look like when a new generation leads, Greta Thunberg is Time’s 2019 Person of the Year.”